Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:09:31 -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN [1]) before, but I wonder if it would help y

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin > wrote: > >> I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder >> if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52, Mark Felder wrote: > The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no MySQL > locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of network > traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe .75 - 1.0 > on a normal day

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so you have some information to go on. That actually looks like a great solution, but I current

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 12:52 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi all, > > We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some > issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows > high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up u

Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until that point), the console takes keyboard input but doesn't really do anything or switc